Biden mulled inviting Ukraine to join NATO after Trump's election victory - Bloomberg
The White House apparently decided the likely success of such a public invitation would be too low, and scrapped the idea.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has separately criticized the outgoing administration for taking increasingly reckless steps that are provoking tensions around the Ukrainian conflict.
There's going out with a bang, then there's Kamikaze Joe.
#Ukraine #US #NATO
Gunman shot dead outside Israeli embassy in Jordan - Israeli media
Three cops were reportedly injured in the incident in the early hours of Sunday morning, security forces told Israeli media, before which residents of the Rabiah neighborhood of the Jordanian capital Amman had been warned to remain indoors while the suspect was hunted.
The shooter had apparently fired at a police convoy, with several shots clearly heard through footage posted online.
#Israel #Jordan
Netanyahu arrest: US Senator Lindsey Graham threatens sanctions on allies who try to help ICC
The US Senator made the announcement in an interview with Fox News, and also addressed Canada, Britain, Germany and France, saying that if they did, he would encourage restrictions to “crush their economies.”
Those four "allies" are all member nations of the International Criminal Court, and are bound to respect arrest warrants, but the US is not.
America dictating how other countries respect their laws?
#US #Netanyahu #ICC
Palestinian doctor arrested without charges tells story after release from Israeli custody
Dr. Khaled Al Seer was arrested during Israel’s March 2024 incursion, then endured six months of brutal imprisonment without charges, witnessing horrific abuse.
"They treated everyone equally, but this equality meant equal oppression and humiliation for all," he said. Just a week after his release, he returned to his duties.
#Palestine #Israel
Chinese Jackpot! Massive gold reserves found
Chinese geologists have discovered a massive gold reserve in Hunan Province, estimated to be worth about $83 billion.
Anyone checked US gold prices?
#China
Christmas comes early to the ISS
Progress MS-29 successfully docked with the ISS, delivering 2.5 tonnes of supplies and Christmas gifts for the crew.
#ISS
🚨JIMMY DORE: TRUMP REALISED NETANYAHU IS THE OBSTACLE TO PEACE
‘Donald Trump always thought that the PLO was going to be the impediment to a peace deal and then he had a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu and realised in the first 3 minutes that the impediment wasn’t the Palestinians, but the impediment was Netanyahu.’
‘Donald Trump is not a warmonger, he might be corrupt, but he’s New York City real estate corrupt. He’s not neocon warmongering kill people for money corrupt.’
-Jimmy Dore on what Donald Trump means for the Palestinians as the Gaza genocide continues
FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v5rxave-jimmy-dore-on-ukraine-and-ww3-biden-wants-a-war-that-trump-cant-stop-only-h.html
Wild train fire burns in downtown Las Vegas
Las Vegas Fire and Rescue found several vehicles on fire in the rail car on Friday evening as they battled to contain the fire to one car.
The smoke could reportedly be seen for miles, and caused authorities to close down roads in the area, although there were no injuries recorded.
#US #LasVegas
West wakes up to Russia's Oreshnik missile power
Are the US and its allies finally learning that play time is over for Vladimir Zelensky?
#Russia #Ukraine
There are some places in the world where people feel solidarity with Russians – Serbian director Kusturica
Eminent Serbian director Emir Kusturica is hosting RT’s international documentary film festival in a unique village he originally built as a film set: Drvengrad.
The festival features films focusing on the Ukraine conflict and depicting the realities in Donbass, Donetsk, and Lugansk.
#Serbia #Russia
Macron slated for branding Haitians 'completely dumb' for sacking his preferred PM
The French President has blamed Haitians themselves for killing their own country - conveniently overlooking the decades of unrest and instability directly stoked by Western interventions.
Someone put Emmanuel's toys back in his pram.
#France #Haiti #Macron
US boosts Fiji military ties in ‘historic’ visit
Pentagon boss Lloyd Austin paid the first visit of a US Secretary of Defence to the Pacific nation Saturday, pledging to $4.9 million to modernize Fiji’s military.
Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka - who recently signed agreements with China on trade, infrastructure and Chinese language on his Beijing visit - praised the “historic” deal.
#Fiji #US
IDF strike kills fisherman in Lebanon's Tyre
WARNING: Distressing footage
Lebanese Civil Defense Department confirmed an Israeli UAV attack targeting a group of fishermen on the beach in Tyre left one dead and two injured.
#Israel #Lebanon
Trudeau dances at concert as violent protests grip Montreal
As violent protests sparked chaos through Montreal, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was spotted in Toronto clearly enjoying himself at a Taylor Swift concert, sparking outrage on social media as Canadians questioned their leader's priorities.
Even Liberals don't think chaos can be solved by song and dance... do they?
#Canada #Trudeau
‘Macron has positioned France on warpath’ — global security analyst
#Macron #France
‘Criminals’: Trudeau hangs own intel officers out to dry
The Canadian PM has publicly slated his own intelligence officials for leaking false stories about New Delhi’s complicity in the killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Trudeau told media that “criminals leaking top-secret information to the media have consistently gotten those stories wrong”, branding the report that had claimed Indian PM Narendra Modi and top Indian officials knew about an alleged plan to kill Nijjar as “speculative and inaccurate”.
#Canada #India
2024 has become the deadliest year on record for UN workers – UN Secretary general spox
The Gaza war has tragically made 2024 the deadliest year for aid workers, with over 320 killed, a significant number of whom were UNRWA personnel providing vital assistance, says UN Secretary-General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
#UN #Gaza
Russia delivers humanitarian aid to Lebanon amid intense IDF attacks
In solidarity with the Lebanese people suffering from ongoing airstrikes and destruction, Russia delivered 20 tons of vital aid to Lebanon.
#Russia #Lebanon
Polish farmers' Ukraine blockade stretches 1km - Polish media
According to reports, the protesters are demanding that the government maintain last year's level of agricultural tax in 2024, and don't want Warsaw to conclude a free trade agreement with the Mercosur South American countries.
Polish farmers are using the border as a tool to influence their government, the Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy stated.
How dare they protect their own interests.
#Poland
PROF. NAOMI WOLF: US🇺🇸 STATE DEPARTMENT IS COLLUDING WITH THE UN TO BRING IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
‘There’s a three-country staging area where the US State Department is colluding with the UN to bring in these millions of people into the US illegally, which to my knowledge has never happened before. The State Department has engaged with the UN in breaking sovereign nations’ laws…19-30 million people are in the US illegally’
FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v5q9b0t-prof.-naomi-wolf-slams-fascist-censorship-of-the-biden-administration-expla.html
ICYMI: UK 'would arrest Netanyahu' if Israeli PM traveled to Britain - No 10 spox tries not to admit
Although the Downing Street spokesperson claimed the office would refuse to discuss "hypotheticals", he confirmed the UK would obey all legal obligations.
Which, with Britain as an ICC member country, obliges them to respect all of the court's arrest warrants.
Welcome to the West - where no opportunity to wriggle out of admitting responsibility goes unmissed.
#Israel #UK
1 in 5 young French people want Jews out - poll
A survey conducted by French Jewish council CRIF found just 21% of French citizens view Israel favorably - down from 27% in 2020 - as 21% of under-35s would be "glad to see Jews leave France."
Almost half (49%) of respondents believe there is a “Jewish lobby” that holds influence over political leadership in France, while 17% believe there are too many synagogues in France.
#France #Israel
Philippines VP orders hitman to assassinate President - if she is killed first
President Ferdinand Marcos ordered “immediate action” after Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte’s extraordinary expletive-ridden press conference Saturday, in which she admitted her plans.
"This country is going to hell because we are led by a person who doesn't know how to be a president and who is a liar," Duterte said in the briefing, after last month admitting she had pictured cutting Marcos’ head off.
In the Philippines, the vice president is elected separately from the president and has no official duties.
#Philippines
Pro-female sports: School board defends decision to ban silent protestors
Not content with banning two parents for the crime of wearing pink wristbands marked "X X" to support their daughters in a girls' school football match featuring a transgender player, a New Hampshire school board insists it was right to do so despite being sued for their actions.
New Hampshire state law bans pupils from grades 5 through 12 playing in sports teams of their chosen gender identity, and although the two men explained they did nothing but silently protest the apparent transgression, the school board say they couldn't wait until actual threats were made.
#US #LGBTQ
Pakistan Sunni-Shiite Violence: 32 more killed - AFP
An AFP source said that 47 more were also wounded in violent clashes in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, just two days after attacks on Shiite passengers convoys killed 43.
Fighting across multiple locations in the region has killed 14 Sunnis and 18 Shiites, the source confirmed, taking the total death toll since Thursday to at least 58.
#Pakistan #Sunni #Shiite
❗️Latest: 11 dead from IDF strikes on Beirut - Lebanese authorities
Exclusive RT footage shows the scene shortly after the latest IDF attack on Lebanon's capital, which left the entire central zone of Basta devastated.
At least 62 more have been left injured, and many more are still missing.
#Israel #Lebanon
Trump hush money case: Permission granted to file for dismissal
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg had asked for it to be delayed until after Trump has served his presidential term, but Trump’s team want it dismissed altogether as it would cause “unconstitutional impediments” to his ability to govern if left hanging over him.
New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan set a December 2 deadline for Trump to file a motion to dismiss, but hasn’t confirmed when he will rule on the expected motion itself.
#Trump #US
❗️Five more dead bodies found from Israel's Beirut strikes - medical staff source to RT
A woman's body was among the five new casualties uncovered from the rubble left from the IDF strike on a residential building on Fatahallah Street in the Basta al-Fauqa district in Beirut, a source from local medical staff told RT.
A large number of people are missing as a result of the strike, with footage from social networks apparently showing the devastation left, while at least 23 more have been left injured.
At least four airstrikes in total were recorded in the Lebanese capital at around 4am local time.
#Israel #Lebanon
Biden 'is going to be removed from office anyway in two months. Why does he care? I mean, he's like a suicide bomber at this point’ — ex-CIA analyst
#Biden #SuicideBomber
Trump already considering Richard Grenell for Rusia-Ukraine post — Reuters
Trump transition team sources told Reuters that the president-elect may tap former intelligence chief Richard Grenell to be special envoy to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Grenell would play a key role in Trump's efforts to end the conflict quickly, if he’s selected. Grenell was also a top contender to be secretary of state, Trump went with Marco Rubio instead.
#Trump
